Vintage Halloween Image 4 U

Another fun Vintage Halloween Image for you to enjoy.
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Have a Spooktacular Day!
~Danae <(:o) aka 'Crafty'

Vintage Halloween Image 4 U

This image is from a rare 1930's Vintage Tally Card.

You are free to use it in your artistic creations

-however it is not to be sold as a digital image.

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Thanks for visiting & Happy Halloween!

~Danae * aka 'Crafty'

Mothers Day Card Ideas from Scrapbooks Etc.

~This Mother’s Day, honor a special mom with a unique card made using a variety of ebellishments, papers, and techniques. These are just some of the spectacular cards that the awesome crew at Scrapbooks etc. came up with.
CREATE CHARACTERS WITH BUTTONS AND EMBELLISHMENTS
Design by Cathy Blackstone
To create bird accents, Cathy embellished buttons with googly eyes, patterned paper, and feathers. A chipboard branch grounds the accents, while a stamped sentiment balances the design.
ADD TEXTURE WITH EMBOSSING
Design by Leslie Lightfoot
A cool color scheme provides the backdrop for Leslie’s nature-inspired Mother’s Day card. She embossed the background paper with a circular motif for added texture, then attached chipboard accents and sentiment.

USE TRIM AND EMBELLISHMENTS TO ADD DIMENSION

Design by Erica Hernandez

Erica trimmed die-cut paper to fit the top of her card base, utilizing the curved edge as a design element and allowing the blue background to show through the die-cut flower near the top of the card. A label holder frames her greeting, while brads punctuate floral motifs, adding dimension and color.

BE CREATIVE WITH CARD FOLDS

Design by Mellette Berezoski
A decorative edge adds interest to the first flap pf Mellete's C-fold card design. Stitched rub-ons and a die cut embellish the second layer of the card, with solid pink paper creating contrast with the green scallops.

LAYER ON TEXTURE AND SPARKLE

Design by Valerie Salmon

Add pizzazz to your Mother’s Day card this year with a variety of textural embellishments. Valerie included chipbord accents, felt flowers, and sparkly gems on hers.

PLAY WITH A VARIETY OF SHAPES AND BORDERS

Design by Valerie Salmon
Punched shapes, scalloped edges, and a ribbon detail give this Mother's Day card a playful personality. Valerie used letter stickers to spell out "Mother" near the bottom of the card.

DRAW ATTENTION WITH SPECIAL SENTIMENTS

Design by Leah Fung
The large circle embellishment on Leah’s card pulls together the color scheme and draws attention to the sentiment. A tab with the word “Grandma” extends from the top of the card, balancing a family-theme accent in the opposite corner.

Artist Spotlight: Myka Jelina

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IN HER OWN WORDS...

My name is Myka Jelina. My modern Gothic fantasy art, using elements like jewel-tone colors, tattoos,transcendent wings, fashion,hair style, heavy boots, bright faces with expressive eyes, is my contribution to the timeless mysteries of inspiration. Most of the gothic faery creatures I have painted have actual names. My artwork has been used on t-shirts, posters, body mists, air fresheners stickers and more. You probably have seen some of my work over the years in places like Hot Topic, Target, Hastings or just walking down the street. My favorite mediums are acrylic paints on masonite panel although I often work in a variety of media like colored pencil, watercolor charcoal, ink and digital. I hope they brighten your day while your passing through.


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These are some of the beautiful faerie pieces by one of my all time favorite artists, Myka Jelina. I just cannot get enough of her art! I thought I had seen most of her work, but each time I go check out her site, I find more faeries that I haven’t seen before. And I go nuts over each one! She really has an amazing eye for detail, and such talent.

Myka Jelina is a 33 year old artist who lives in Missouri. Her shop can be found at MYKA JELINA.com. She draws her “Dark Faeries”, as she calls them, mostly in Prisma Colors. Sometimes she uses acrylic paint. She draws all different kinds of faeries, with many types of wings. Some have dainty gossamer type wings, some have bat wings, butterfly, or wasp wings. Others are angels, with feathery wings. She also does Goddesses, genies and mermaids. They all have a different style of dress too. Most of them fall somewhere in the Gothic/ Punk/ Rocker chick genre . All of her creations have a name. And all have a vibe and look of their own. She sells prints and posters of her art., and also has many other variations on her pieces. You can now find them as tatoo flash art, on the cover of little pocket compact mirrors, Artist Trading Cards and recently even on her own line of jewelery. She also sells some of her paintings framed in elaborate frames. I’m telling you, these frames are so beautiful and ornate on their own, that I would buy them even if they didn’t have one of her paintings in them! She is a truly amazing artist. One that you will be seeing more of on my art blog, and my Crafty’s Cup blog.

Some More Of My Art To Share With You

These are some more of my drawings. They are some o my older ones, done in 1996 and 1998. Definitely some of my favorites.

The one on the top left is a desert sheild that I drew after a trip to Arizona. This was from my sketchbook, and I copied it onto nice white cardstock. I made sets of cards to sell from a few of the sketchbook drawings. (The top right one was also a part of this set.) This card set was the first of my peices to be made into greeting cards. I do them much differently now, less drawing, and more paper crafting. Little did I know then that cards would become one of my main sellers of my art.

The top right is another one of my favorite designs. Owls are one of my totem animals, and I have found myself drawing them over and over for many years now. Trees have been another one of my signature designs. I used to lay underneath them, and draw them, trying to capture thedfferent textures and leaf structures. However, they always turn out looking more cartoonish that realistic. Oh, well; we all have our own styles, and I guess that is one of mine.

The middle picture is of a very lage drawn that I made of the Forest God, and the Earth Goddess. I did it in pointelism, which is a series of dots placed close together, or far apart to acheive the ligt and dark shading. (And yes, it did take a long time!) I wish that I could take credit for the actual design of this one. owever it is something that I drew, using another person's art as a model. I was yearning for some good art to hang on the wall of my living room. I knew that I couldn't afford t go out and buy the art...so I recreated what I wanted myself. It has become a beloved peice, that hangs in a prominent spot in any house I live in.

Artist Spotlight : Yulia Brodskya

IS THIS STUFF EXTRAORDINARY? OR WHAT?

SHE GIVES US PAPERCRAFTERS A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF AMAZING TO LIVE UP TO!!!

This woman is absolutely amazing! She gives new meaning to the term Paper Crafter. I am enthralled with her work, her creations, and her style. I can only dream of attaining this level of artistic success. I found her website through one of my favorite design blogs; and I knew that I must share her here with you. I will let her describe herself, and her art in her own words...as I could not do them justice. I hope that you enjoy her art as much as I do. it is breathtaking in it's intricacy.

"I was born in Russia where I started out as a fine artist producing contemporary office decoration artwork for Moscow based companies while studying for my first degree in Graphic Design. In 2004 I moved to London, earned my M.A. in Graphic Communication and since then have been busy with parallel careers as an illustrator and a freelance graphic designer. Awards: 1st prize in the Russian Conceptual Packaging Design Competition; in recognition of typographic achievement I have been elected a Member of the International Society of Typographic Designers (2006). Clients include Orange, RedBull, BBH, How2 T-shirts, International Organ Festival, ARMI, Touchnote cards and CUBE magazine. I’m constantly experimenting and evolving, always pushing my style in new directions: my greatest passion is to explore the ways of combining illustration and typography. "

Crafty Chick Update

Hello all of my crafty friends. I hope everyone has been enjoying their first official weekend of Spring. I know that me and my family sure are! We have had a busy week (as usual!), and are enjoying the end of a fun and relaxing weekend. The kid’s had two different play dates, one on Friday afternoon, and on Saturday. Then on Saturday evening, we visited with my folks, and spent the night at their house. (Well, they did…Mama stayed up most of the night typing up posts while I had free use of my Dad’s internet connection!) Then, after rushing to wake up early, and get to JD’s 8 AM T-Ball game, Mom got the call that it was cancelled due to a wet baseball diamond. Since we were already up, dressed and out; the Kids, my Father and I all went out for breakfast. (My absolute favorite weekend treat!) So, now, I am just catching up on some laundry, and again madly typing away, preparing posts, while I have the free net access. All in all, a very nice weekend. I hope everyone else’s was as good!
Now, for the Art World side of things. I have good news. It looks as if I am going to be able to get a Pay Pal Account pretty quick now! YAY! You don’t know this; but I have been DYING to get my stuff up on ETSY. For a loooong time now. So this is a big deal for me. It will be even bigger once it is done, and I can start selling my work.
Aside from that; this week saw the completion of my two first swap projects for Swap Bot. (And yes, I was late.) I am really hoping that my nice artwork, and the extra goodies I added to them will help soften my lateness. I made each of them a four page Paper Bag Book, with three pockets inside. The theme of the books were Friendship. I will try to get a few good photos before I mail them out. Then I made a matching refrigerator magnet, and six slices of stationary that matched each Ladie’s book. I threw in a few stickers for each, and I think I may add some tea bags and a pouch of flavored hot cocoa, or something to sweeten it up even more. (I feel like such a louse to be late like this…but I really had a whammy of a week, and it all caught up to me. When I had to decide which ball to drop, the swap got the drop!) I think that from now on, I am going to make a bunch of cards, books and other stuff to have on hand for swaps. I have even started a box for the cute stuff that people have given me in the past. Stuff that doesn’t quite fit my personality, but easily could be treasure for someone new. So, just like with blogging, I am figuring all of this out little by little. Maybe my first swap didn’t go so well, I will be sure to be ready for them next time!
I will also be getting some saleable items made up and photographed, to put on ETSY. I really cannot wait! So I had better get busy crafting up some new items. It’s a good thing that I have a lot of ideas and I love to craft. Otherwise I would probably draw a blank when it actually came time to create something.
Luckily I find inspiration all around me. My only problem is that I have TOO many ideas, and TOO much inspiration! I get excited to move onto a new project before the old one is finished. Then I get a whole bunch of them all going at the same time. Not conducive to productivity. It is something that I always working on…overcoming, or getting a grip on my Artists’ ADD. When I make a breakthrough I will be sure to let you all know! Until then…
Have a truly inspiring week!
~Danae, the Crafty Chick